TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yourcenar, Marguerite
TI  - Memoirs of Hadrian
SN  - 9780140181944
U1  - 843.912 YOU 23
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Harmondsworth
PB  - : Penguin Books
KW  - Love, Fiction
KW  - French Literature
KW  - Historical Fiction
N2  - Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era
ER  -